There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even in the gigantic and the ideal, the form of our mind. Nothing springs more directly and more sincerely from the very bottom of our souls than our unreflected and indefinite aspirations towards the splendours of destiny.

God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.

I'm religiously opposed to religion.

[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.

The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.